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...Pentecostal Church of God in Baltimore one night last week, Rev. John William Pitcher and five members set out to break the cover-to-cover Bible reading record (69 hr., 17 min.) of Rev. Finis J. Dake & team of Zion City, Ill. (TIME, Feb. 26). It took Preacher Pitcher's team 50 hr. and 56 min. to go from Genesis to Revelation. Then all arose and sang: "Praise God from Whom all blessings flow...
...Zion, Ill. one night last week Rev. Finis J. Dake read these words, the ten first in the Bible, from his pulpit in small Christian Assembly Church. He continued reading, through Genesis into Exodus. After four hours he stopped. A Mr. Slutz mounted the pulpit, went on where Mr. Dake left off. Two hours later a young woman started in on Leviticus. On & on the reading went, a monotonous drone which was broadcast outside the church with loudspeakers. Preacher Dake was putting on a Bible-reading marathon and wanted everyone to know...
...Zion City is run by Overseer Wilbur Glenn ("The World Is Flat") Voliva of the Christian Catholic Apostolic Church. When he heard what the Christian Assembly Church, a schismatic upstart, was up to he became choleric, told his followers: "It's a publicity stunt. That church is a monkey house.'' Overseer Voliva sent his chief of police around but all that official could do was to have the loudspeakers shut off at night...
...What did a sporting churchman of Zion City, Ill. offer to bet even money...
Herewith a true likeness of Director Cammerer and apologies to onetime Senator Otis F. Glenn of Illinois whose picture TIME used by mistake. Last week busy Director Cammerer was still Parkinspecting, had visited Yosemite, Sequoia, Zion, flown across the Grand Canyon of the Colorado...